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Rents will also not necessarily risedramatically. "There are a lot of tenants," shesaid. "We have to be prudent and responsiblelandlords...
...vest. But instead of buying, he wore one constructed of manufacturer's scraps. Sometimes he worried that it was too short. "If they get me in the liver, that's pretty tough to patch," he told a reporter last February. Apparently he assumed that his assailant, aiming from a prudent distance in hopes of a clean getaway, would go for the largest target, the torso...
Britton died last Friday with his liver whole. Moments after he and the elderly couple acting as his volunteer guards arrived in the parking lot of the Ladies Clinic of Pensacola, a gunman ran up to the driver's side of their blue pickup truck. The killer was no prudent sharpshooter: he got quite close with a 12-gauge shotgun and blasted the faces of the two men with round after round of buckshot...
...naive in this age of payback politics to presume that a President's nomination will be approved, barring a serious impediment. But when Brown appeared before the committee last fall and no Republican Senators asked any questions, he thought it would be prudent to put his house in Berkeley, California, up for sale in January. Despite the sluggish market, a buyer miraculously appeared. Brown negotiated a four-month leaseback, but the family had to move out before confirmation. They no longer have meals together in their eat-in kitchen because there is no kitchen. School tuition is paid...
...someone's murder and those who do the deed. Perhaps I don't see it Frank's way because I lead an Expository Writing study group on the life and career of John F. Kennedy '40--and so I know that in 1963 someone decided it would "be more prudent to nip his aspirations in the bud," too. But I don't think so. What I do think is that Frank's column is the ugliest violation of what is supposed to be the bedrock rule of membership in an academic community: a commitment to civil discourse. And I also...